Abraham ‘Bram’ Stoker was born in Dublin in 1847. Often ill during his childhood, he spent much time in bed listening to his mother’s grim stories, sparking his imagination. Stoker eventually came to work and live in London, meeting notable authors such as Arthur Conan Doyle and Oscar Wilde. He wrote several stories based on supernatural horror, such as the compelling The Lair of the White Worm, and the most well-known of all his works, the Gothic masterpiece Dracula.Dr Carol Senf (Introduction) is Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in Literature, Media, and Communication at Georgia Tech. She has published articles on Victorian literature and her books include Science and Social Science in Bram Stoker's Fiction and Dracula: Between Tradition and Modernism, which won the Lord Ruthven Assembly award for best non-fiction in 1998. She has published annotated editions of Stoker's Lady Athlyne and Mystery of the Sea, as well as Bram Stoker (2010) and Blue Books, Baedekers, Cookbooks, and the Monsters in the Mirror: Bram Stoker’s Dracula (2019).

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Abraham ‘Bram’ Stoker was born in Dublin in 1847. Often ill during his childhood, he spent much time in bed listening to his mother’s grim stories, sparking his imagination. Stoker eventually came to work and live in London, meeting notable authors such as Arthur Conan Doyle and Oscar Wilde. He wrote several stories based on supernatural horror, such as the compelling The Lair of the White Worm, and the most well-known of all his works, the Gothic masterpiece Dracula.Dr Carol Senf (Introduction) is Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in Literature, Media, and Communication at Georgia Tech. She has published articles on Victorian literature and her books include Science and Social Science in Bram Stoker's Fiction and Dracula: Between Tradition and Modernism, which won the Lord Ruthven Assembly award for best non-fiction in 1998. She has published annotated editions of Stoker's Lady Athlyne and Mystery of the Sea, as well as Bram Stoker (2010) and Blue Books, Baedekers, Cookbooks, and the Monsters in the Mirror: Bram Stoker’s Dracula (2019).

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Abraham ‘Bram’ Stoker was born in Dublin in 1847. Often ill during his childhood, he spent much time in bed listening to his mother’s grim stories, sparking his imagination. Stoker eventually came to work and live in London, meeting notable authors such as Arthur Conan Doyle and Oscar Wilde. He wrote several stories based on supernatural horror, such as the compelling The Lair of the White Worm, and the most well-known of all his works, the Gothic masterpiece Dracula.Dr Carol Senf (Introduction) is Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in Literature, Media, and Communication at Georgia Tech. She has published articles on Victorian literature and her books include Science and Social Science in Bram Stoker's Fiction and Dracula: Between Tradition and Modernism, which won the Lord Ruthven Assembly award for best non-fiction in 1998. She has published annotated editions of Stoker's Lady Athlyne and Mystery of the Sea, as well as Bram Stoker (2010) and Blue Books, Baedekers, Cookbooks, and the Monsters in the Mirror: Bram Stoker’s Dracula (2019).

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